Class will feature presentations of new technologies as well as job opportunities by cutting edge Genomics professionals.

Long PCR is an important and often indispensable technique in the medical and biotechnological research area now known as Genomics, which is undergoing beyond exponential growth in both development and jobs.

Taught in new lab facility at 860 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, near College of Alameda

New high tech equipment

Acceptable for credit: CSU

First course toward Medical Genomics Certificate of Achievement

Ideal for students who have completed some or all of the Allied Health Pre-requisites

Course Topics:

Day 1: Overview of steps that will be accomplished in class and the ideas that drive them.

Day 2: DNA extraction - (the fundamental first step in working with DNA)

Day 3: PCR reactions - (this is how small amounts of DNA are amplified into large amounts of DNA for a wide range of molecular biological and biomedical uses).

Day 4: Gel electrophoresis of Genomic DNA and Long PCR products - (examination of fragment sizes of DNA obtained by students in the course).